As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Life of a miners’ leader, socialist, anti-imperialist and perpetually rebellious Labour MP
MARY DAVIS reviews a new biography of an outstanding socialist MP and militant trade unionist
SO Davies
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
Reddest of the Reds: SO Davies, MP and Miners’ Leader
by Robert Griffiths (Manifesto Press, £19.50)
IT IS likely that, outside Wales, most people in the rest of Britain will not have heard of SO Davies.
This fact marks yet another lacuna in our knowledge of British labour history.
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